Economic liberalization failed to bring political liberalization to China, which has only grown more repressive.  NED president Carl Gershman reflects on the life and legacy of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s special envoy Lodi Gyari and the relationship between democracy in China and freedom in Tibet.

About the event China’s Communist Party (CCP) has heralded the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) as a global economic stimulus project that will provide great benefits to BRI partners. What has been masked, however,...

Testimony by Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy At the Hearing of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on Foreign Affairs On “U.S. Policy Towards Tibet: Access, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights” Thank...